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PHILADELPHIA TUCKUPP.- Editor Forest and Stream: Your 

 co'Te*poniient is right as to numbers, construction, etc., of "tuck 

 up*" on the D-iaware. I have counted 180 sail pass tip stream by 

 Cooper's Pmn' in le°s than 15 minutes, most of them 15fc . flyers. I 

 al'o p iTticipated in a regatta in which over 60 of these tiny craft 

 started from buoys reaching from Philadelphia to the Cove Channel 

 There is no doubt these boats are the speediest in the world, going 

 over a course in a race of 35 miles iii almost the r^ugh'St kind of 

 weather. Thev are man killers all the same.— R. G. W. (Camden, N. 

 J., Feb. 13 1886). 



A NEW FISHING SCHOO^EK —A new fishing schooner of the 

 foil- wing dimensions i-s now tiuil ling at E-isex, Mass : 85ft in length 

 stem to sternpost, length over all 100ft., beam 23ft. bin . depth Oft., 

 keel 2ft. biu., sharp V-shaped bor.tom with Y-shaped quarters and 

 stern, width of stern 12ft.. draft, aft lift. 6in., mainmast 74ft , fore- 

 mast 72ft.. bowsprit S-'Oft. outside knighthead-s, foremast is 2ltt. from 

 the siena and there will be 26f'c. 6in. between the masts, malnboom 

 65ft in length. 



NE V BEDFOTtn Y. C —The offl '«rs for 1886, elec'ed on March 2 

 arc: Commodore. Fiederick Swift ; Vice-Commodore, R H. Morgan; 

 K-ar C'lmmotor^, E. B Tlammotid; Secretary, John H. Barrow.-; 

 Treasirer. E Banley Wills; Direcion?: E. S. Bro-n, Oeorge M Crapo, 

 J A. Barnes, Widiard Nye, Jr., Horace Wood, J. C Rhodes, R. 8. 

 Taber, Frank E. S>vain, Isathaniel Hathaway, William Sherman and 

 Davi i L Parker. 



A YACHT CRUISE ABRO VD.-Mr. W. A. W. Steward, of the Mag 

 gie. and Mr. C S. L-je, of the Oriva, lately left New York for a long 

 cruise, gui sr to England by steamer, where they will charter a 

 schoont-r yacht aud snil for the Mediterranean, visiting I iter the West- 

 Indies, and prooably New York. Capcain Porter accompanies them 

 as navigator. 



PRISCILLA.— It is reported that the crew of the Priscilla. under 

 Capcain Gioson, have b- en sent to Wi mington to bring her to New 

 York, but what is to be done with her is not yet knpwn. 



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No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



H. P. S.-Tbe arm Is accurate. It will kill at half a mile range if 

 you can hit anything at that distance. 



G. S. S., Chicago, 111 —Mr. Joseph Bardwell, 676 Thirteenth place, 

 Chicago, can give you full particulars. 



A. J. B., Ogden burg, N. Y.— Can you inform me what preparation 

 is used on iuside of aquariums which is waterproof? I have a large 

 one, bottom covered with zinc and stopped with white lead; this I 

 covereu with sealing wax varnish, but it does not give satisfaction, as 

 it gets soft and peels off, result, dead fish. If you can inform me 

 what I can put on to stay there and resist action of water I will be 

 gteatly obliged. I have a constant stream of water passing in and 

 out, but I keep losing fish, and attribute to poison from zinc and lead, 

 no w ithstanding there is nearly three inches depth of sand and gravel 

 on bottom. Ans. We would advise that all the zirc and white lead be 

 taken out and the glass set in aquarium cement Green woo .'s rubber 

 cement was used in the New Yoik Aquarium, with good re tilts, in all 

 the tanks. The frames of these were of i on, slate, or Portland 

 cement. This rubber cement can still be obtained in this city. An 

 urtiflci'U stone cement is made of sand, litharge and rosin, wet with 

 linseed oil. , This hardens like stone and is difficult to remove when a 

 new glass is to be put in. If the bottom of your tank is of wood try 

 pitch on it. 



Otna Readers will confer a favor by sending m the name* 

 of such of their friends as are not now among the subscribers 

 of t/ie Forest and Stream, but who would presumably 

 interested in the paper. 



PQT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 



A photograph of a tiger in the act of seizins; his prey has, by 

 a lucky accident, been made by an Englishman in Madras. 

 The camera was focussed on a buffalo tied t o a stake at a dis- 

 tance of 60 feet, and had just received a dry plate, when a 

 tiger leaped from a jungle aud struck down tbe buffalo with 

 a single blow. The operator kept his presence of mind and 

 released his shutter befo'e taking to bis heels Tbe negative 

 showed the relative attitude of tiger and buffalo fairly well, 

 and confirmed the generally accepted opinion that the tiger, 

 with his knock down blow, endeavored to dislocate the neck 

 of his victim. 



A monster elk was sighted in the Ward River Mountains 

 by a hunter, says the Salt Lake Tribune, and the hounds sent 

 after him. A long chase of two hours led to the base of Sable 

 Mountain, one cf the loftiest of the range, up which the mon- 

 arch of the forest darted as his final refuge. The ascent was 

 steep, but the hunter and his dogs followed. Soon the elk 

 was brought to bay. As the foremost of the dogs sprang full 

 at the throat, the branching antlers were suddenly lowered, 

 and keen tines pierced from side to side, and the stanch hound 

 was thrown high in air, and fell far rlown the steep incline. 

 Nothing daunted, the remaining hound, too, made its fierce 

 spring, and shared the fate of its comrade. The animal then 

 rushed at the hunter, who tired, but the next instant was 

 whirled aloft on the broad antli rs. His stout buc ! skin hunt- 

 ing-shirt turned aside the sharp prongs, but they had become 

 fastened in the garment, and he bade fair to be thrashed to 

 death. As for a second time the elk dashed him to the earth 

 he managed to catch hold of a bush, and kept his grasp long 

 enough to draw his revolver and send a ball crashing through 

 the brain of his gallent foe. 



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